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| Journalists no longer safe in Britain Story of the chilling clash of the GCHQ (British "intelligence" spy agency) with the GUARDIAN newspaper over the Guardian's computer files and information from the Snowden documents: "... one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred – with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. 'We can call off the black helicopters,' joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro." -- it may not be long before it will be impossible for journalists to have confidential sources. Read More |
Event Reminders:Oceanside International Film FestivalThursday, 08/22/2013 The Oceanside International Film Festival begins Thursday, Aug. 22, and runs through Aug. 25 at the Star Theater in Oceanside, with film screenings and other events scheduled for each day. In addition to presenting independent films from around the world, the film festival will include a number of sessions on film making workshops, for example, Friday’s Screenwriter’s Workshop. Read more about the schedule in the full details section. Public Workshop on Climate Action Plan BV Creek Valley and Marron Adobe Mini Tour This 'N ThatPeace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.- Dorothy Thompson Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses. Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation? The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. In all the ways you can, The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too. Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. All works of love are works of peace. Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live. Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all. The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. In all things it is better to hope than to despair. But the wisdom from above is pure, first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deals,; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy. A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look. When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor. . . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. I don't do great things. I do small things with great love. I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause. If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. Do it big or stay in bed. I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned from this war. He who can control his rising anger as a coachman controls his carriage at full speed, this man I call a good driver; others merely hold the reins. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth. Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face. The first casualty when war comes is truth. It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight. The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve. Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others. | Articles & News: I do not accept your apology, Pvt Bradley Manning News Last week Pvt. Bradley Manning offered an apology, at the end of his six week long trial. J. Howard Crews of Fallbrook, a member of the S.D. Veterans for Peace, tell why he does not accept Manning's apology. The death of secure cloud computing in the US Angry man confronts GOP rep over NSA spying
“The DEA and the IRS are getting information from the NSA and using it to frame American citizens and then lying about where they got the information,” Dax Ewbank of Oklahoma City said at the event. “This is what is happening. Now, what happens if the government becomes politically against my belief system or my lifestyle?” Republican Congressman James Lankford of Oklahoma received a verbal lashing at a town hall meeting on Tuesday from a man upset with the National Security Agency’s surveillance program. Ewbank was referring to documents recently obtained by Reuters that showed the NSA was providing data to the Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA Special Operations Division in turn was sending tips to both local authorities and federal agencies, including the IRS, to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans. Mayor Filner Alleged behavior not so extraordinary Greenwald retaliation: to publish UK spy secrets Cartoons of the Week Obama, the negotiatorPlease don't make me do this!Unions & the Middle ClassObama plays poker with GOP The Abuse, torture of whistleblower Pvt. Manning
It's time to STOP THE ABUSE of Pvt. Bradley Manning and other whistleblowers. Appearances: Maggie Gyllenhaal Roger Waters Oliver Stone Daniel Ellsberg Phil Donahue Michael Ratner Alice Walker Tom Morello Matt Taibbi Peter Sarsgaard Angela Davis Moby Molly Crabapple Tim DeChristopher LT Dan Choi Bishop George Packard Russell Brand Allan Nairn Chris Hedges Wallace Shawn Adhaf Soueif Josh Stieber Michael Ratner Issa awarded Climate Change Denier award Manning Video:American troops slaughter civilians
Video depicts a US Apache attack helicopter killing 12 civilians and wounding two children on the ground in Baghdad in 2007. The helicopter then fired on and killed the people trying to rescue the wounded. Finally, a US tank drove over one of the bodies, cutting the man in half. These acts constitute three separate war crimes. All with calloused video-game contempt for human life. - Manning fulfilled his legal duty to report war crimes. He complied with his legal duty to obey lawful orders but also his legal duty to disobey unlawful orders. -- The Army covered up the evidence and declared the war crime "justified". Now they say that exposing the massacre is criminal. INFO CLICK HERE: Late-breaking news: This just in ...
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Jak of JNL media describes his arrest while filming the Keystone XL pipeline and the aftermath that prevents him from speaking out against the pipeline. Under this legal injunction Jak faces 1 year in jail or 3 years supervised probation if decides to speak out against the pipeline. The War against journalists and First Amendment rights for Free Press unabated.
US officials terrorized by reporter's writing pen
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DEMOCRACY NOW - Journalist Laura Poitras, described as the connection between whistleblower Edward Snowden and the reporters for The Guardian and The Washington Post who published Snowden's leaked documents about government surveillance. Poitras shared a byline on two of the key articles about the ongoing NSA revelations, and filmed the Guardian interview in Hong Kong in which Snowden went public with his identity. But well before she took on Snowden's case, Poitras has come face to face with issues of privacy and state surveillance over her work as a documentary filmmaker. In an excerpt of an April 2012 interview on Democracy Now!, Poitras discusses her repeated detention and interrogation by federal agents whenever she enters the United States.
NSA director lying at US Senate hearing on drones
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This is PERJURY ! - March 12, 2013- Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asks questions in Senate Intelligence Committee on warrantless geolocation surveillance and National Security Agency tracking. -- One viewer wrote "Lie, after lie, after lie. They track, they spy, they have everyone's emails and phone calls. We know all about the way this regime is treating it's citizens. IRS, AP, FOX reporter Rosen. Do YOU still trust Obama and his thugs? Wake up!" -- In fact, after the newly leaked documents from the Guardian, we know the NSA director, James Clapper was lying to the senators. We await the prosecution of Clapper for perjury.
Sign the PETITION for prosecution of CLAPPER:
Ohio Bank Forecloses On Wrong Home
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Katie Barnett only wants her stuff back. She says all her possessions in Vinton County, Ohio, disappeared when Wellston First National Bank confused her home with the house across the street, foreclosed on it, changed the locks, and then sold or trashed everything -- all while she was out of town for two weeks. Worse still, Barnett says an itemized list requesting the bank pay her $18,000 so she can replace everything has only been met with ridicule from the bank's president.
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Columbus did not discover the United States
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Why do we even celebrate Columbus Day in the United States? Watch 1492 and hear Ward Churchill set the record straight about Columbus and the Doctrine of Discovery.
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